Why are smiles contagious? An fMRI study of the interaction between perception of facial affect and facial movements

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-36

  Wild, Barbara ^a   Erb, Michael ^a   Eyb, Michael ^a   Bartels, Mathias ^a   Grodd, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotional expression; Facilitation; Non verbal communication; Priming; Social cognition; Visuomotor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CAMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOUTH; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; STIMULUS; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0037723885     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4927(03)00006-4     Document Type: Article

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